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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Philosophy@UWS
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white">is </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">organising an "Encountering the Author" seminar on Ilit Ferber’s book:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Philosophy and Melancholy, Benjamin’s Early Reflections on Theater and Language</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Date:</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> Wednesday July 22, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Time:</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> 3.00 to 5.00 pm</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Location:</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> Bankstown Campus, Building 3, room 3.G.55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">[How to get to Bankstown Campus]</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his philosophy.
Informed by Heidegger's discussion of moods and their importance for philosophical thought, she contends that a melancholic mood is the organizing principle or structure of Benjamin's early metaphysics and ontology. Her novel analysis of Benjamin's arguments
about theater and language features a discussion of the <i>Trauerspiel </i>book that is amongst the first in English to scrutinize the baroque plays themselves.
<i>Philosophy and Melancholy</i> also contributes to the history of philosophy by establishing a strong relationship between Benjamin and other philosophers, including Leibniz, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger.</span><span style="color:#2F2F2F;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Ilit Ferber is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. Ilit’s publications include
<i>Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language</i> (Stanford University Press, 2013) and articles on Benjamin, Leibniz, Herder, Freud, Heidegger and Scholem. She has also co-edited
<i>Philosophy's Moods</i> (Springer, 2011) and <i>Lament in Jewish Thought</i> (De Gruyter, 2014). Ferber is currently working on a book that explores the relationships between pain and language in the writings of Herder, Rousseau, Benjamin and Wittgenstein.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:Philosophy@uws.edu.au">Philosophy@uws.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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